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2151: Base Period, Qualifying Period and the Equilibrium Rate of Unemployment

Elke Jahn and Thomas Wagner

2150: Regulatory Barriers and Entry in Developing Economies

John Bennett and Saul Estrin

2149: From Temporary Help Jobs to Permanent Employment: What Can We Learn from Matching Estimators and their Sensitivity?

Andrea Ichino, Fabrizia Mealli and Tommaso Nannicini

2148: Enterprise Restructuring in Belarus

Marina Bakanova, Saul Estrin, Igor Pelipas and Sergei Pukovich

2147: Gender Differences in Job Separation Rates and Employment Stability: New Evidence from Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen

2146: A Dual Policy Paradox: Why Have Trade and Immigration Policies Always Differed in Labor-Scarce Economies?

Timothy Hatton and Jeffrey Williamson

2145: Green Cards and the Location Choices of Immigrants in the United States, 1971-2000

David Jaeger

2144: Exploiting Regional Treatment Intensity for the Evaluation of Labour Market Policies

Markus Frölich and Michael Lechner

2143: Control Rights in Public-Private Partnerships

Marco Francesconi and Abhinay Muthoo

2142: Who Pays for Performance?

Erling Barth, Bernt Bratsberg, Torbjørn Hægeland and Oddbjørn Raaum

2141: The Effects of Labor Market Policies in an Economy with an Informal Sector

James Albrecht, Lucas Navarro and Susan Vroman

2140: Does the Liberalization of Trade Advance Gender Equality in Schooling and Health?

T. Schultz

2139: Remittances, Institutions and Economic Growth

Natalia Catrinescu, Miguel Leon-Ledesma, Matloob Piracha and Bryce Quillin

2138: The Wage Curve: An Entry Written for the New Palgrave, 2nd Edition

David Blanchflower and Andrew Oswald

2137: The Intrahousehold Allocation of Private and Public Consumption: Theory and Evidence from U.S. Data

Olivier Donni

2136: Child Work and Schooling Costs in Rural Northern India

Gautam Hazarika and Arjun Bedi

2135: Are New Work Practices and New Technologies Biased against Immigrant Workers?

Michael Rosholm, Marianne Roed and Pål Schøne

2134: Rational Alcohol Addiction: Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey

Badi Baltagi and Ingo Geishecker

2133: Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis

Alice Shiu and Almas Heshmati

2132: Labour Market Signalling and Unemployment Duration: An Empirical Analysis Using Employer-Employee Data

Anders Frederiksen, Rikke Ibsen, Michael Rosholm and Niels Westergård-Nielsen

2131: Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Marc-Andreas Muendler and Sascha Becker

2130: On the Identification of Frisch Labor Supplies

Olivier Donni

2129: Choosing Monetary Sequences: Theory and Experimental Evidence

Paola Manzini, Marco Mariotti and Luigi Mittone

2128: Learning from a Piece of Pie: The Empirical Content of Nash Bargaining

Pierre Chiappori and Olivier Donni

2127: Individual Attitudes towards Immigrants: Welfare-State Determinants Across Countries

Giovanni Facchini and Anna Maria Mayda

2126: A Note on Parametric and Nonparametric Regression in the Presence of Endogenous Control Variables

Markus Frölich

2125: Construction Contracts (or: "How to Get the Right Building at the Right Price?")

Surajeet Chakravarty and W. Bentley Macleod

2124: Task Difficulty, Performance Measure Characteristics, and the Trade-Off between Insurance and Well-Allocated Effort

Wendelin Schnedler

2123: Can Risk Aversion Explain Schooling Attainments? Evidence from Italy

Christian Belzil and Marco Leonardi

2122: An Econometric Analysis of the Impact of the Self-Sufficiency Project on the Employment Behaviour of Former Welfare Recipients

Jeffrey Zabel, Saul Schwartz and Stephen Donald

2121: Get Training or Wait? Long-Run Employment Effects of Training Programs for the Unemployed in West Germany

Bernd Fitzenberger, Aderonke Osikominu and Robert Völter

2120: Kombilöhne und Mindestlöhne als Instrumente der Beschäftigungspolitik – Erfahrungen und Handlungsoptionen

Werner Eichhorst

2119: Punishment, Inequality and Emotions

David Masclet and Marie Claire Villeval

2118: Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins

Hongbin Li, Pak-Wai Liu, Junsen Zhang and Ning Ma

2117: What Shapes Attitudes Toward Paying Taxes? Evidence from Multicultural European Countries

Benno Torgler and Friedrich Schneider

2116: Wage Rigidity or Fiscal Redistribution? The Unemployment Bias of Time Consistent Redistributive Policies

Etienne Lehmann

2115: Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Lutz C. Kaiser

2114: The Impact of Brazil's Tax-Benefit System on Inequality and Poverty

Herwig Immervoll, Horacio Levy, Jose Nogueira, Cathal O'Donoghue and Rozane Bezerra de Siqueira

2113: Career Consequences of Hyperbolic Time Preferences

Francesco Drago

2112: Calculation of Multivariate Normal Probabilities by Simulation, with Applications to Maximum Simulated Likelihood Estimation

Lorenzo Cappellari and Stephen Jenkins

2111: Does Head Start Improve Children's Life Chances? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design

Jens Ludwig and Douglas Miller

2110: Home Ownership, Job Duration and Wages

Jakob Munch, Michael Rosholm and Michael Svarer

2109: Deregulating Job Placement in Europe: A Microeconometric Evaluation of an Innovative Voucher Scheme in Germany

Henrik Winterhager, Anja Heinze and Alexander Spermann

2108: Friendship in a Public Good Experiment

Marco Haan, Peter Kooreman and Tineke Riemersma

2107: Empirical Estimation Results of a Collective Household Time Allocation Model

Chris Klaveren, Bernard van Praag and Henriette Maassen van den Brink

2106: Mutual Monitoring in Teams: Theory and Experimental Evidence on the Importance of Reciprocity

Jeffrey Carpenter, Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis

2105: Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Alessio Brown, Mike Orszag and Dennis Snower

2104: Labor Market Assimilation of Recent Immigrants in Spain

Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes and Sara De La Rica

2103: Daughters and Left-Wing Voting

Andrew Oswald and Nattavudh Powdthavee

2102: Market Power, Dismissal Threat and Rent Sharing: The Role of Insider and Outsider Forces in Wage Bargaining

Anabela Carneiro and Pedro Portugal

2101: Hispanic Self-Employment: A Dynamic Analysis of Business Ownership

Magnus Lofstrom and Chunbei Wang

2100: Before and After the Hartz Reforms: The Performance of Active Labour Market Policy in Germany

Lena Jacobi and Jochen Kluve

2099: On the Stability of the German Beveridge Curve: A Spatial Econometric Perspective

Reinhold Kosfeld, Christian Dreger and Hans-Friedrich Eckey

2098: Rising Wage Dispersion, After All! The German Wage Structure at the Turn of the Century

Karsten Kohn

2097: Wage Inequality and Job Insecurity among Permanent and Contract Workers in India: Evidence from Organized Manufacturing Industries

Amit Bhandari and Almas Heshmati

2096: Disability and Work: The Role of Health Shocks and Childhood Circumstances

Maarten Lindeboom, Ana Llena-Nozal and Bas van der Klaauw

2095: Close Neighbours Matter: Neighbourhood Effects on Early Performance at School

Dominique Goux and Eric Maurin

2094: Welfare Migration in Europe and the Cost of a Harmonised Social Assistance

Giacomo De Giorgi and Michele Pellizzari

2093: Reform Redux: Measurement, Determinants and Reversals

Nauro Campos and Roman Horvath

2092: Interpreting Prediction Market Prices as Probabilities

Justin Wolfers and Eric Zitzewitz

2091: Nonparametric Tests for Treatment Effect Heterogeneity

Richard Crump, V. Joseph Hotz, Guido Imbens and Oscar Mitnik

2090: Non-Pecuniary Returns to Higher Education: The Effect on Smoking Intensity in the UK

Alfonso Miranda and Massimiliano Bratti

2089: Keeping in Touch: A Benefit of Public Holidays

Joachim Merz and Lars Osberg

2088: Migration's Income and Poverty Impact Has Been Underestimated

Maurice Schiff

2087: How Important Is Selection? Experimental vs. Non-Experimental Measures of the Income Gains from Migration

David McKenzie, John Gibson and Steven Stillman

2086: Reforms, Entry and Productivity: Some Evidence from the Indian Manufacturing Sector

Sumon Bhaumik, Shubhashis Gangopadhyay and Shagun Krishnan

2085: Intergenerational Earnings Mobility among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Abdurrahman B. Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak

2084: Income Inequality and Job Satisfaction of Full-Time Employees in Germany

Christoph Wunder and Johannes Schwarze

2083: Ambition and Jealousy: Income Interactions in the "Old" Europe versus the "New" Europe and the United States

Claudia Senik

2082: Do Population Control Policies Induce More Human Capital Investment? Twins, Birthweight, and China's 'One Child' Policy

Mark Rosenzweig and Junsen Zhang

2081: Optimal Accumulation in an Endogenous Growth Setting with Human Capital

Frédéric Docquier, Oliver Paddison and Pierre Pestieau

2080: The Returns to Computer Use Revisited, Again

Benoit Dostie, Rajshri Jayaraman and Mathieu Trépanier

2079: Hedonic Capital

Liam Graham and Andrew Oswald

2078: Chronic and Transient Poverty: Measurement and Estimation, with Evidence from China

Jean-Yves Duclos, Abdelkrim Araar and John Giles

2077: Peer Effects in European Primary Schools: Evidence from PIRLS

Andreas Ammermüller and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2076: Job and Wage Mobility in a Search Model with Non-Compliance (Exemptions) with the Minimum Wage

Zvi Eckstein, Suqin Ge and Barbara Petrongolo

2075: New Evidence on the Causal Link between the Quantity and Quality of Children

Joshua Angrist, Victor Lavy and Analia Schlosser

2074: Compensation for Earnings Risk under Worker Heterogeneity

Peter Berkhout, Joop Hartog and Dinand Webbink

2073: Employment Subsidies and Substitutable Skills: An Equilibrium Matching Approach

Gabriele Cardullo and Bruno Van der Linden

2072: Comprehensive versus Selective Schooling in England in Wales: What Do We Know?

Alan Manning and Jorn-Steffen Pischke

2071: A Selection-Based Theory of the Transition from Employment to Entrepreneurship: The Role of Employer Size

Simon Parker

2070: An Examination of the Reliability of Prestigious Scholarly Journals: Evidence and Implications for Decision-makers

Andrew Oswald

2069: Wirksamkeit der Förderung der beruflichen Weiterbildung vor und nach den Hartz-Reformen

Holger Bonin and Hilmar Schneider

2068: From Golden Age to Golden Age: Australia's "Great Leap Forward"?

Paul Frijters and Robert Gregory

2067: The Targeted Negative Income Tax (TNIT) in Germany: Evidence from a Quasi Experiment

Alexander Spermann and Harald Strotmann

2066: The Caring Hand that Cripples: The East German Labor Market After Reunification (Detailed Version)

Dennis Snower and Christian Merkl

2065: Capital Deepening and Wage Differentials: Germany vs. US

Winfried Koeniger and Marco Leonardi

2064: Active Decisions and Pro-social Behavior: A Field Experiment on Blood Donation

Alois Stutzer, Lorenz Götte and Michael Zehnder

2063: Does Child Abuse Cause Crime?

Janet Currie and Erdal Tekin

2062: Incentives for Managers and Inequality Among Workers: Evidence from a Firm Level Experiment

Oriana Bandiera, Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul

2061: Identification of Search Models with Initial Condition Problems

Gadi Barlevy and H. N. Nagaraja

2060: Cues for Coordination: Light, Longitude and Letterman

Daniel Hamermesh, Caitlin Myers and Mark Pocock

2059: Doping and Cheating in Contest-Like Situations

Matthias Kräkel

2058: Is Mothers' Time With Their Children Home Production or Leisure?

Jean Kimmel and Rachel Connelly

2057: Dynamics of Work Disability and Pain

Arie Kapteyn, James Smith and Arthur van Soest

2056: Simultaneous Search with Heterogeneous Firms and Ex Post Competition

Pieter Gautier and Ronald Wolthoff

2055: Konzentration statt Verzettelung: Die deutsche Arbeitsmarktpolitik am Scheideweg

Hilmar Schneider, Werner Eichhorst and Klaus Zimmermann

2054: Should You Allow Your Agent to Become Your Competitor? On Non-Compete Agreements in Employment Contracts

Matthias Kräkel and Dirk Sliwka

2053: Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Katharina Wrohlich

2052: The (Self-)Selection of International Migrants Reconsidered: Theory and New Evidence

Herbert Brücker and Cécily Defoort